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| Special report: Peak everything. By 2030, the global middle class is expected to grow by two-thirds. That?s 3 billion more shoppers. They’ll all want access to goods, including water, wheat, coffee and oil. Is there enough for everybody? Can business satisfy demand and avoid hitting “peak everything?” |
| Russians drill into untouched lake miles below Antarctica’s surface. Russian scientists have drilled into the vast, dark and never- before-touched Lake Vostok 2.2 miles below the surface of Antarctica, the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti said Monday. |
| Take zap! Tech geeks, starved for more battery power, give themselves a charge. Any geek can tell you that battery life hasn’t kept up with gadget innovations. But not to worry: Inventors are figuring out how to turn geeks into batteries. |
| Another green energy company stumbles. Fisker Automotive, maker of exotic electric sports cars being built with help from a $529 million federal loan, has announced layoffs at its Delaware plant as it tries to persuade the Department of Energy to continue backing it with public money. |
| UK emissions rose 3.1% as economy recovered in 2010. The dramatic fall in greenouse gas emissions caused by the recession has proved to be a blip, with UK emissions rising 3.1% in 2010 as the economy recovered. The UK’s emissions have been falling over the past decade as energy generation has switched to less carbon-intensive gas power, but this is the first time emissions have risen since a modest rise in 2003. |
| UK Labour party accuses Tory right of ‘contempt’ for the environment. Labour has accused the chancellor of the exchequer of “actively revelling in contempt for environmental protection”, in the latest broadside in the row over green policies that has consumed the coalition since the resignation of Chris Huhne on Friday. |
| Climate protesting president of Maldives resigns under political pressure. Mohamed Nasheed, the president of Maldives who resigned Feb. 7, was best known as a passionate advocate of climate change, going as far as holding the world’s first underwater cabinet meeting to highlight the cause. |
| Use Rio 20 to overhaul idea of growth, urges EU climate chief. The world must use a landmark environmental summit this year to change forever the current damaging model of economic growth, Europe’s climate chief has warned, or face future crises as severe as the one currently enveloping the eurozone. |
| EPA accepts industry methods for calculating warming potential of fluorinated gases. The EPA has made a preliminary decision to accept industry methods for calculating the global warming potential of seven fluorinated greenhouse gases, approval that will help manufacturers of the gases comply with the agency’s broader greenhouse gas reporting rule. |
| Study: Minorities face greatest climate-change impacts. The California Department of Public Health has released a study finding that heat events, flooding and wildfires ? events associated with anticipated future climate change ? will impact Fresno County’s minorities the greatest. |
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